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asim ◴[] No.45788244[source]
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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kcaseg ◴[] No.45788266[source]
Last time I commented something very similar thinking it was the least controversial no brainer thing and multiple people reacted as if it was some Leninist ragebait lol
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t0lo ◴[] No.45788293[source]
Conditioning- America is a capitalist social experiment and I mean that literally
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edm0nd ◴[] No.45788381[source]
Seems pretty successful then no for being such a young country. America is literally where all the major tech and internet companies are.
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1. mmooss ◴[] No.45796169[source]
That is partly attributed to being by far the largest single market for much of the 20th century - European countries have at most ~30% of the population - and being the only major economy not destroyed by the end of WWII, which resulted in the US producing half of world GDP at the time.

US businesses have had a much larger market to sell to, and that attracts investment and talent.